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Synonyms for basest


Grammar : Adj
Spell : beys
Phonetic Transcription : beɪs

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Définition of basest

Origin :
  • "to place on a foundation," 1841, from base (n.). Related: Based; basing.
  • adj vulgar, low
Example sentences :
  • The fellow has no property as respectable as the basest virtue of a wolf.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • To lie, to deceive, to circumvent even the basest of mankind was odious to him.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • One scarce realizes that this lovely spot is at the same time the basest.
  • Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
  • I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
  • Extract from : « The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass » by Frederick Douglass
  • This infamous magician, the basest of men, was the sole cause of my misfortune.
  • Extract from : « The Arabian Nights » by Unknown
  • I have found them, almost invariably, the vilest, meanest and basest of their class.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • The words I had uttered had sounded to Madeline like the basest insult.
  • Extract from : « Humorous Ghost Stories » by Dorothy Scarborough
  • He knew it would be an act of the basest ingratitude and selfishness.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • And Alice was suspected of the basest and the blackest guilt!
  • Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Would the basest hind in the field have lifted a sword against a woman?
  • Extract from : « In Doublet and Hose » by Lucy Foster Madison

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